weak security in our daily lives

[picklemonkey]

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So, you know those cars with that keyless entry pad? The one under the driver's side handle? Well, if you look closely you will see that there are really only 5 buttons, labeled "1/2", "3/4", "5/6", "7/8", "9/0". In an effort to avoid a little confusion, I'm going to call those buttons 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9, respectively.

A little experimentation will reveal that, if the code is 11357, and you type 5113579, the door will still open! This means that with 7 characters we managed to try out 3 sequences - 51135, 11357, and 13579. After the inital 4 numbers (which sort of primed the pump) every digit tries one new sequence. Since there are 55 length 5 sequences of characters from an alphabet of size 5, we know that we'll need to try 3125 sequences total. With our intuition from above, we would hope that we could find a sequence of size 4 + 3125 (priming the pump, followed by one new sequence every keypress). It turns out that a mathematician named de Bruijn has already done all of the hard work for us on this one, and all of the relevant math can found under the names de Bruijn sequence and de Bruijn graph. But I'm not going to talk about math any further here. Right now, I am going to give you a sequence of minimal length that, when you enter it into a car's numeric keypad, is guaranteed to unlock the doors of said car. It is exactly 3129 keypresses long, which should take you around 20 minutes to go through.

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[lilsensa]

Re: weak security in our daily lives

im gonna steal a car!!!!!!!!

[sammwalk]

Re: weak security in our daily lives

now just to figure out what to do with that whole "grand larceny" thing.

[Lorn]

Re: weak security in our daily lives

I'm not gonna waste 20 minutes trying to do that.

[threehills]

Re: weak security in our daily lives

^ Yeah, who wants to steal a ford taurus station wagon.

[cowardly dj]

Re: weak security in our daily lives

Do you think the average car thief could make any sense of that? Most dont even have a third grade education.

[neoee]

Re: weak security in our daily lives

Interesting, but much easier to use a slim jim.

[Yao]

Re: weak security in our daily lives

Do you think the average car thief could make any sense of that? Most dont even have a third grade education.

hahahahaa....having the key and not knowing how to use it